Shield for suspended wearing apparel



April 18, 1933- M. H. SIDEBOTHAM 1,904,092

SHIELD FOR SUSPENDED WEARING APPAREL Filed Dec. 15, 1930 ATTORNEY.

Patented Apr. 18, 1933 UNITED STATES PORATION OF MASSACHUSETTS Application filed December 15, 1930.. Serial No. 502,308.

This invention relates to garment protectors and refers particularly to paper shields for suspended wearing apparel, which shields, when in use, keep particles of dust or the like from the shouldersand neck portions of coats, dresses and other articles of wearing apparel, while such articles are supported by garment hangers of any of the well-known types.

Several kinds of paper garment protectors are in wide use but so far as I am aware all of them either consist of a rather excessive quantity of paper due to having doubled or over-folded port-ions, or involve the folding of blanks which latter are of such shape as to cause avery considerable waste of the paper material.

One of the objects of the present invention is to provide garment protectors which require no folding operation in the manufacture thereof, thereby effecting a saving in operating costs of production; and another object is to provide such protectors which involve practically no waste of paper whatever.

Another object is to provide improved protectors having such structure that they are producible at low cost, due not only to avoiding waste of material but also because of being capable of a very high speed of production by machinery.

With said objects in view, my inventlon consists in the articles, substantially as here'- inafter described and claimed.

Of the accompanying drawing:

Figure 1 is a rear elevation of one of the complete protectors or shields.

Figures 2 and 3 are elevations of the front and rear sections respectively.

Figure 4 rep-resents a section on l1ne of Figure 1, enlarged, and with each sectlon illustrated by double lines, in the interest of clearness.

Figures 5 and 6 are somewhat diagram matic views to illustrate the method of manufacture as hereinafter described. I

Similar reference characters designate similar parts or features in all of the views.

The complete article is illustrated by Figures 1 and 4:, said article consisting of the are preferably lines intersecting the two sections illustrated by Figures 2 and 8.

ach section 12 has recesses 13 in its upper and lower edges at its mid-width, and straight parallel end edges 14, and the section 15 is of the same area and form except that there are relatively short straight edges 16 at itsmid-width. From the mid-width, the upper and lower edges of both sections inclined in opposite directions or laterally, but I do not limit myself to such specific shape as illustrated.

The two sections are adhesively connected along their. upper edges, by spots or lines of gluesuch as indicated at 17. Glue is omitted close to the upper recess 13 so that ample space will be provided for the pas sage of the usual hook portion of a garment hanger when theprotector is applied as a shield for wearing apparel suspended from a hanger of the usual, type. V

The provision of the lower recess 13 is important, in that it facilitates access of ones finger or fingers to the inside of the protector to spread the lower edges apart to open the protector when applying it to a garment on a hanger.

While the articles suchas illustrated by Figures 1 and 4 can be produced manually, by assembling previously .cut blanks, to manufacture them by the following meth- 0d, in the interest of attaining rapid production Referring to Figures 5 and 6, two webs of material, preferably paper, are assembled one upon the other, one of said webs having holes 13 at intervals along its mid-width, and either web having adhesive applied thereto at similar intervals on transverse lines as indicated at 17 in Figure 6. Said lines are preferably inclined in opposite directions from the mid-width of the web because the hangers usually employed for supporting garments have downwardly inclined shoulder-portions. Saidlines might, however, extend straight across the web for the production of some shapes of fabric protectors.

The assembled webs, adhering together at the intervals 17 are transversely severed on holes 13 of one web (Fig. 6), the same cutter which effects such PATENT OFFICE I prefer.

severance also cutting the other web as indicated at 16 in Figure 5. This results in successivelyproducing the articles illustrated by Figures 1 and 4.

The method described enables the articles to be produced by mechanism which feeds the two webs continuously, forms the holes 13 at intervals in one web, applies the transverse 'line's'of glue 17 preferably to the same web,

presses the two webs together while' travel ling, and cuts the two assembled webs on lines which intersect the holes 13, such cutting being quite close to the lines of glue so that the front and rear sections or walls of each protector made will be united along their upper edges except where a portion of a hanger is to protrude, all this being effected without any folding operation and producing protectors which are practically of uniform thickness throughout. Therefore the protectors are not only econoniical'as to material employed and as to speed and costs of opera tion in making them, but are so uniformly flat and smooth that when any are removed froma pile, for use, they will not catch upon each other.

In the machine which I making the protectors, printing mechanism is included. The printing can be effected on either or both of the webs.

Having now described my invention, claim: V

l. A paper garment protector comprising two sections of single thickness throughout and adhesively connected at their upper edges and free from each other at their sides and lower edges, the side edges being parallel and the upper and lower edges being inclined in opposite directions from the mid-width thereof, and one of said sections having a recess at the midwidth of its lower edge.

2. A paper garment protector comprising two sections of single thickness throughout and corresponding with each other in form and area and adhesively connected along their upper edges and free from each other at their sides and lower edges, the upper and lower edges being inclined in opposite directions from the mid-width ofthe protector and their have produced for side edges being parallel, one of said sections having relatively short straight edges intermediate its inclined edges and the other section having recesses registering with said short straight edges.

In testimony whereof I have affixed my sig nature.

MELVIN H. SIDEBOTHAM. 

